Blumenstillleben mit Flieder und Anemonen

Flower Still Life with Lilacs and Anemones, 1925

ArtistLovis Corinth, Tapiau (Ostpreußen) 1858–1925 Zandvoort

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame106,4 × 85,7 cm

Dimensions with frame126 × 106 cm

Status

on display, room 018.3

About the workThis painting belonged to Düsseldorf’s municipal art collection until it was confiscated as part of the “Degenerate Art” campaign in 1937. The picture had been purchased from an exhibition in Düsseldorf shortly before Lovis Corinth’s death and was shown alongside works by other artists based in Berlin. Corinth realised many still lifes and liked to depict lush arrangements of flowers – this is one of his final pieces. A rapid style of painting with coarse brushstrokes characterised his oeuvre from the 1910s onwards, which was denounced by the National Socialists as “degenerate”. The work was bought by the industrialist Emil Bührle at a large auction in Lucerne in 1939 and remained in his art collection and that of his descendants in Switzerland until it was reacquired in 2022.

Accession Acquisition 1925, confiscation 1937, reacquisition 2022 with support from the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

ProvenanceFrühjahr – 16.7.1925 Lovis Corinth; 16.7.1925 – 26.8.1937 Städtische Kunstsammlungen zu Düsseldorf (heute Kunstpalast Düsseldorf), angekauft auf der Großen Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf; 26.8.1937 – 30.6.1939 Deutsches Reich, Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin, als "entartet" beschlagnahmt; August 1938 – Juni 1939 Schloss Schönhausen, eingelagert als "international verwertbare Kunst"; 30.6.1939 Versteigerung bei der Galerie Fischer, Luzern, eingeliefert vom Deutschen Reich; 30.6.1939 – 1956 Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956), angekauft auf der Versteigerung in Luzern; 1956 Dieter Bührle, Zürich, erworben im Erbgang; 2012 an dessen Sohn im Erbgang; 15.3.2021 Marco Pesarese Fine Art, Icking (in Kommission); 4.4.2022 angekauft von Marco Pesarese Fine Art

Inventory numberM 2022-1

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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